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Personal Observations Concerning Life

Personal Observations Concerning Life by J. Sousa These are just crazy, perhaps non-sensical observations I made after finally getting uncapped Internet. Caution is advised. If one is given the endless information gathered and created by humanity, one will most likely seek to maximise one's utility given limited time and resources. Without limits on time and / or resources, one would seek out their true interests, seeking to maximise the knowledge of these interests so as to increase the utility gained from these. This might lead to the discovery of additional interests, which would lead to and endless "fractal", spiralling outward ad infinitum into the endless bounds of all information. The abovementioned cycle is the cause of humanity's (and other species') discovery / formations of methods to increase the frequency at which utility is gathered from these interests, given that time / resources are limited. Tl;dr: Internet makes us want to seek out interests.

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Contemporary Laundry Room in Kent Huge image of a modern utility room with a yellow floor and a u-shaped ceramic tile backsplash, shaker cabinets, gray walls, a side-by-side washer and dryer, a single-bowl sink, laminate countertops, and gray countertops.

An interesting thing that I’ve often had conflicting opinions on is the conflict between ‘knowledge needs to be applicable in real life for it to have any value’ and the opposite, ‘knowledge has an inherent value which is acquired through its possession’. I’ve always felt both were unjustifiable premises. Note the word used there - value. What does the word mean? Does it even mean anything? It is a term that fundamentally relies upon the importance the reader or writer places on varying subjects. Is it wise to try and reach an universal conclusion on this? Reason would say not, yet it is the philosopher’s aim to resolve the differences. How is one supposed to accept his thesis for or against one of these? Will not the degree of stress he places on places on matters such as utility and realism influence his reasoning and conjecture? And would it not be assuming a priori that the purpose crucial to him is one vital to a significant sect of the populace? What does an inference need to possess for it to be denounced as truth? Is a thing true in the same practice if it only applies to a specific few? What indeed is true? What is truth? Is it something that lies beyond the material? Perhaps as Nietzsche says, there is no thing that deserves the mantle of ‘truth’. We live briefly, with the knowledge that life is an arbitrary happening and distract ourselves from nihilistic dejection with the illusory hope of happiness and attempt to elevate our lives through awareness of the anthropological nature of things such as good and evil. What after all is there to live for? Does one really need a ‘why’ in order to find the ‘how’?